Devising Process

Personal role and contribution to the Devising Process.
For our devising process, I was able to offer up knowledgeable help and advice concerning the outcome of our Site Specific Performance. For instance, I was able to to come up with and agree with my group on the idea of basing our piece around "tragic" circumstances/elements.
In order to bring this to life, we decided to as a group to use music as a means of further expressing the themes of seclusion and loss experienced from "tragedy". We decided to use the song "tragedy" by the Bee Gees as a way of implicitly sharing our themes whilst incorporating them in the basis of our performance. This idea would be incorporated in the opening of our performance as a way of exemplifying the anti-social nature of commuters on public transportation unaware of impending catastrophe.
Another one of my ideas was to use the surrounding properties of our site as a means of enhancing our overall performance. For example, the lockers to the left of the entrance to our site, provided the sound qualities of a "tube" train moving over the tracks. Incorporating the lockers into our performance through a "sound scape" provided both an interesting audible and visual experience for our audience.

Developing work as a group and how I made decisions in relation to the Site
In the later stages of the rehearsal period, my group and I decided to change certain aspects of our performance in order to relate more broadly to the concept of "tragedy". In shaping and changing vital aspects of our performance, we agreed that the concept of a "Group Leader" would be beneficial in making vital decisions in relation to the outcome of our performance. It was agreed that all ideas would be validated with the group leader in order to ensure that the aim of our concept was met to a high degree. In relation to the Site, we had to make sure that all ideas and concepts were accessible with the amount of space allocated in our Site. 
Another way in which we made decisions in relation to the Site as a group was by, improvising short sections of scenes that had had little, to no work put into them, whereby we would filter out what ideas worked in relation to the scene, sifting out unwanted elements of our performance. This helped to broaden both our direction and understanding of our performance piece and how we were going to merge certain ideas/element together in order to make cohesive work that related to the concept of "tragedy".

Making decisions in relation to image, sound, physical performance, character, narrative, costume and space during the rehearsal period.
Making decisions in relation to the aesthetics of our performance piece in the rehearsal period was relatively straightforward. In shaping our Site with relevance to a "train", "image" and "sound" was moulded to suit the cramped and claustrophobic surroundings of our interior. We were able to conjure "sound" from both musical elements and soundscapes created by our voices. We moulded and shaped our physicality to determine the mood and atmosphere being given off in certain aspects of our performance, which helped in breaking up dialogue which in the context of experimenting with the qualities being given off our site, may have hindered our final product.
In terms of "narrative", we used "found objects" such as a "tube map" which we found on the floor of our Site, to determine the overall structure of our performance. The panic and hysteria built up throughout parts of our performance was successful in foreshadowing the theme of "tragedy" with which we wanted to emphasise. In terms of "character" we wanted to use physical representations of real commuters on a train juxtaposed with experimental scenery and plot. Our "costumes" therefore would have to be ordinary in order to focus our audiences attention on rather the surroundings of our Site and its qualities.